Transaction card
AssigneeAmerican Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
InventorsEllen Lasch, Lisa Webb, Judy Vigiletti, William J. Faenza, Jr.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for producing an opaque, transparent or translucent transaction card having multiple features, such as a holographic foil, integrated circuit chip, silver magnetic stripe with text on the magnetic stripe, opacity gradient, an invisible optically recognizable compound, a translucent signature field such that the signature on back of the card is visible from the front of the card and an active thru date on the front of the card. The invisible optically recognizable compound is an infrared ink and/or film, which can be detected by a sensor found in an ATM or card assembly line.
Claims26
A card comprising:
- a plurality of layers including a first polymeric layer, a second polymeric layer, having a first surface, and a third layer having a machine recognizable compound,
- wherein said machine recognizable compound is capable of blocking infrared light and substantially covers said surface of said second layer, and wherein said plurality of layers is transparent or translucent to visible light.
A method of making a card comprising the steps of:
- disposing a plurality of layers together wherein said plurality of layers comprises a first polymeric layer, a second polymeric layer, having a first surface, and a third layer having a machine recognizable compound, wherein said machine readable compound is capable of blocking infrared light and substantially covers said surface of said second layer and wherein said plurality of layers is transparent or translucent to visible light;
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- laminating said plurality of layers together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.